Chuck Norris seems to have been hanging out listening to his good buddy Glenn Beck a bit much these days.

He went on Neil Cavuto's Fox News show yesterday and regurgitated a lot Beck's talking points about how Obama is radically transforming the country, but took them the next logical step into militia-style black-helicopter territory.

What had him all worked up was Obama's pending trip to Copenhagen to help negotiate a global-warming treaty:

Norris: I really think he's going over there to try to create a one world order. And I think --

Cavuto: Well, what's your big worry?

Norris: My big worry is the fact is that we, as a nation, if we start having to be, ah, obligated to other countries. Like -- in this conference, they're going to try to take our money and send it to third-world countries, because we spend so much oil, and so other countries have suffered, and they want to give our money to these, uh, third world countries.

Neil, we have people here who are starving in our own country. I -- you know, my foundation, I have families who are making nine thousand dollars a year -- the kids that I'm teaching. Why aren't we trying to help the poverty in our own country?

Nevermind, of course, that we have this thing called to Aid to Families With Dependent Children and a host of other poverty-fighting programs -- aka "welfare" -- that work reasonably well in attacking poverty in the USA. Except that funding for these programs keeps getting cut by right-wing anti-tax nutcases who think like Chuck Norris.

No, what really is bothering Chuck is that looming New World Order. This is also why he doesn't believe in global warming: "I don't believe it for a second. I think it's a big con game that they're doing."

And if Obama indeed hands over our "sovereignty"?

Who knows what's going to happen. God forbid this happens in our country. Our country as we know it now will no longer exist, Neil, that's the whole thing right there.

A little later, he brought up health-care reform as a signal event in the New World Order takeover:

Norris: I'll tell you what, the thing that worries me the most is this health-care bill. And why I'm scared about it -- it's not about the health care. It's about the provisions that are in that bill.

One, is that if this thing passes, the government will have the right to come into our home and regulate how we raise our children. I found that in the bill.

Be sure never to buy an iPhone or a Mac, or subscribe to Angie's list, because those companies do business with Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Qatar and the UAE, where gays have a lot more to worry about than being denied a cake, such as being jailed, whipped, castrated, or beheaded.

Probably happens more than you think. Stereotypes just never die. I had a male roommate for six years, who was also my business partner. I know more than one person who automatically assumed that we were gay (we weren't) because we were living together. But we'd been longtime friends in Colorado, and I asked him to be my business partner in Arizona. Living together saved money otherwise wasted on two different residences.

Same thing happens to us older, single guys. Parents are wary of us because, well,,,we're old and single. Must be something wrong. We have to be especially careful not to be alone around their children. On the whole, I like kids (as long as they can go home). It bothers me that friendships with families are almost impossible, so I stick to my unmarried friends.

M.A.D. worked because The Soviets, Red Chinese, and the western Democracies are quite sane as societies go. Iran gets saner with the funeral of every 13th century fist shaking mullah. The absolutely crucial question is whether or not it is now collectively just as sane as the big players in the Cold War were. I'm not willing to risk the level of world civilization on it just yet.